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Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Even Great Composers Can Write Flops

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In an earlier blog that touched on the issue of fear of failure , I wrote that "all great composers have had bad reviews, been harshly...
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Thursday, March 19, 2015

On the Value of Living Composers

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Sound and Music , an English organization "committed to supporting new music and developing the audience for it," published  resul...
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Friday, March 6, 2015

Daring to Dream Big – Pros and Cons (1)

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Today's post was inspired by a family trip to Walt Disney World last summer, a place where the word "dreams" is a kind of idée...
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Thursday, January 15, 2015

On Musical Genius

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Many of the composers whose music we study and hear are referred to as musical geniuses. I did a Google search for “music genius” and got 14...
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Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Spin Doctoring 101

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According to Merriam-Webster , a spin doctor is "a person (such as a political aide) whose job involves trying to control the way so...
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Clark Ross
I am a composer of music for soloists, chamber groups, orchestra, voice, and electronics, as well as a guitarist and professor of Composition and Theory (since 1992) at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada. I teach Composition, 2nd-year Music Theory (chromatic harmony and large form classical music), Renaissance Counterpoint, Baroque Counterpoint, and Music Technology. I have also taught Electronic Music, Orchestration, 20th-Century Techniques, Music History, Ear-Training, and Classical Guitar. I welcome feedback from all non-spam bots! If you have any suggestions of topics you'd like me to cover in future posts, please let me know!
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